Fauxtography: Slate humiliates Frank Rich

AllahpunditPosted at 5:03 pm on September 13, 2006

Read the original post, then the exciting conclusion. It’s not photoshopped, it’s not staged, it’s not even miscaptioned. It’s a whole new specie of photo follies: agenda-driven misinterpretation. Or, a glaring case of projection. Same thing, really, except for the degree of conscious intent.

Imagine what we could have accomplished if we’d had Times editors and fact-checkers helping us out on Reutersgate. We would have uncovered … exactly the same stuff we uncovered without them.